Antarctic Fauna 



ANTARCTIC FAUNA. 



It will be observed that the third column con- 

 tains the largest number of forms. It is thus 

 evident that the whiteness of the Arctic and 

 Antarctic faunas in winter has been greatly 

 exaggerated. 



The Arctic fox appears in all three columns, as 

 the creature seems to fall into three races a 

 permanently white race, a permanently coloured 

 race, and a seasonally dimorphic race. 



Of the creatures set forth in the middle column 

 of the above tables all are whiter in winter than 

 in summer with the exception of the snow bunt- 



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